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A new design tested in experiments at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory could improve plastic solar panel materials.

Scientists devised a new arrangement of solar cell ingredients, with bundles of polymer donors (green rods) and neatly organized carbon molecules, also known as fullerenes or buckyballs, serving as acceptors (purple, tan). (UCLA)
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

More Data, No Problem

Scientists are ready to handle the increased data of the current run of the Large Hadron Collider.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

What is Dark Energy

Dark energy is everywhere. It will determine the fate of our universe. And we still have no idea what it is.

Researchers have used an X-ray laser to record, in detail never possible before, the microscopic motion and effects of shock waves rippling across diamond.

Image - Researchers prepare for an experiment in the Matter in Extreme Conditions station’s chamber at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser. (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

How Do You Solve a Puzzle Like Neutrinos?

When it comes to studying particles that zip through matter as though it weren’t even there, you use every method you can think of.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Exploring Dark Energy with Robots

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument will produce a 3-D space map using a ‘hive’ of robots. 

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Seeing in Gamma Rays

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope creates maps of the gamma-ray sky.

News Feature · VIA Kavli Foundation

Dwarf Galaxies Loom Large in the Quest for Dark Matter

A batch of newly discovered satellite dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way should help scientists better grasp the evolution of the universe while also honing in on dark matter's identity.

Scientists for the first time tracked ultrafast structural changes, captured in quadrillionths-of-a-second steps, as ring-shaped gas molecules burst open and unraveled.

Image - This illustration shows shape changes that occur in quadrillionths-of-a-second intervals in a ring-shaped molecule that was broken open by light. (SLAC)

SLAC has led the development and implementation of a variety of upgrades to the ATLAS experiment to match the increased discovery potential of an LHC now operating at record proton collision energies.

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